5 Best Toshiba Laptops

In 1986, Toshiba rocked the PC world with the first modern laptop in the J-3100. It sported a 3.5-inch floppy drive, a CRT display and a rechargeable battery. The company continued to innovate into 2009 when it announced the Portege R600 with the first 512GB SSD inside. Today, Toshiba is known for its value pricing, impressive selection and helpful preloaded notebook software. Here, you’ll find the best the company has to offer, based on our in-depth reviews.

Toshiba Chromebook 2

Elegant and lightweight, the Toshiba Chromebook 2 is as much a joy to behold as it is to hold. With a stunning 13-inch 1080p (or 1366 x 768) IPS display and powerful Skullcandy speakers, the notebook is ideal for nightly Netflix and YouTube binges. The Chromebook 2 can multitask with ease, thanks to the smooth overall performance offered by its Intel Celeron CPU. And with a starting price of $249, the Chromebook 2 is easy on your wallet as well.

Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W

This bendy hybrid is both a beauty and a beast, thanks to its good looks and powerful performance. The Radius P55W's versatile flip design lets you move from traditional Laptop mode to Tablet mode by folding the display all the way to the notebook's underside. You can prop the Radius up like a tent for Presentation mode as well. No matter how you use it, the laptop's long-lasting battery allows you to finish several episodes of your favorite TV show on the go.

Toshiba Satellite Radius 11

For just $370, you can get this sturdy Windows 8.1 hybrid that packs Intel Celeron power in its 11-inch frame. Like other Radius notebooks, you can push the computer's lid all the way around to turn it from a laptop to a tablet. You'll be hard-pressed to find another hybrid that offers such a great value.

Toshiba Satellite P50T-BST2N01

With its good looks, svelte body and stunning 4K touch display, the Toshiba Satellite P50T is one of the sharpest laptops in town. Add Intel Core i7 prowess, and AMD Radeon and Intel HD graphics, and you get a notebook that's as powerful as it is pretty. It even sports an optical drive -- a rarity in laptops these days.

Toshiba Portege Z20t (New and Notable)

Promising up to 17 hours of endurance when docked, the Toshiba Portege Z20t is a drool-worthy Ultrabook hybrid. The lightweight 12.5-inch tablet connects to the keyboard dock for improved productivity, and packs Intel's new Core M processor for a fanless design. The 1080p display's matte, anti-glare finish allows for wide viewing angles, so your friends can easily huddle behind you on your group Facebook stalking sessions. The Portege Z20t is available this month.

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Toshiba laptops may be nice, But currently Toshiba is NOT standing by their warranties as bought. I bought a 4 year complete care (system guard) with service express with onsite service 3 years ago and Toshiba is now a) playing who is responsible for service games with Service Net (their service provider and b) NOT standing by the onsite service warranty. I was told I didn’t have to worry about keeping papers, only the laptop’s serial number mattered, everything tracked that way. Now I have to go back and FIND the original warranty papers to prove I have on site warranty? DON’T TRUST TOSHIBA SERVICE, THEY ARE NOT STANDING BEHIND THEIR WARRANTIES AS BOUGHT.

Toshiba laptops are s***! I purchased a brand new one in Sept 2013. Complained in Oct, Nov, Dec, and Jan. I was yelled at by a Toshiba Manager!! He said there was nothing wrong with the laptop, it just had a virus. Laptop freezes, has had factory reset on it once. So disappointed!! So frustrated! was planning on running my business and designing fabric on this laptop. Now I have an $800 piece of s*** with extended warranty that Toshiba will do nothing about. I will tell every media outlet I can DO NOT BUY TOSHIBA!!!!!!

I have a Toshiba p70 a 01q and its the best laptop out there for the money. Its super fast and I like heavier laptops just because they are better built. If you get a virus on a Toshiba laptop you hold down 0 while turning it on and then follow what it says to do a factory reboot. It takes 4 to 6 hours to complete…

i had an HP throughout college and law school. I decided to try a Toshiba to see the difference. I will never ever ever buy another Toshiba product again. It is the worst computer you can imagine getting. It’s too many apps. Not user-friendly at all and is very very complicated. I cannot believe someone got paid to design this thing. I don’t mean to be dramatic but honestly I wouldn’t wish this computer on my worst enemy. I will stick to HP from now on. For sure.

I AM NEVER BUYING ANY TOSHIBA PRODUCT EVER AGAIN, i bought a toshiba laptop online as a present it costed around 300 $ when i opened it the laptop was missing keys on the keyboard i managed fix this but the keys kept falling out i called toshiba which provided no assistance whatso ever bad service that they kept transefering me from line to line it was fustrating and took about a month to surprisingly they said i had a month of gurantee and i told them my story bout 50 times they told me to send my computer pay shipping which they returned to say it was a physical damage it there was nothing they could do but send it to get this fix i agreed to which they send it back to my adress which wasnt the deal and i was asked to pay for repairs plus shipping what is this? The system also crashes i run windows 8 and constatly freezes i have a satelite c55-a to whom i have wanted a refund but i cant get one Toshiba i am truely disappointed and disatisfied with your product your customer service and ur repair center these laptops should not cost a fortune when all your getting is something that should be 150$ and below

I AM NEVER BUYING ANY TOSHIBA PRODUCT EVER AGAIN, i bought a toshiba laptop online as a present it costed around 300 $ when i opened it the laptop was missing keys on the keyboard i managed fix this but the keys kept falling out i called toshiba which provided no assistance whatso ever bad service that they kept transefering me from line to line it was fustrating and took about a month to surprisingly they said i had a month of gurantee and i told them my story bout 50 times they told me to send my computer pay shipping which they returned to say it was a physical damage it there was nothing they could do but send it to get this fix i agreed to which they send it back to my adress which wasnt the deal and i was asked to pay for repairs plus

toshiba laptops and customer service is the worst I have ever dealt with. All calls outsourced to other countries and they charge customer for shipping a defective product back to them. They than try to make customer pay for repairs. I bought my first toshiba product this year after many years of HP only because it was cheap. Well you get what you pay for. Do a search on toshiba comments and/or reviews. Wish I had before buying. Many people same story toshiba does everything to keep from making the warrenty right. HP has always had great customer service and products.

T have had a toshiba laptop for about a year. This is the first and last one I will ever had. It has been a horrible experience. I would be writing all day if I were specific about what was wrong with it. I will never by anything from this company again , ever.

Hi I am writing to tell people about my Toshiba laptop experience. I purchased a Toshiba Satellite L745 two years ago and it has been total junk for me. The keyboard needed replacing, the computer won’t shut off, there are battery issues of flashing indicator lights, and in general it runs far, far too slow for what it is (i5 core). I have tried reinstalls and nothing seems to improve the poor performance. Don’t buy one.

DO NOT BUY TOSHIBA!! Agreeing with Kristi Ryan who has commented below, it is a constant crasher, its slow, all sorts of odd things happen that are just not usual and especially not accpetable. I bought mine a month ago from Currys (who also have a bad reputation) and its basically a nightmare and no where near worth the £399 I paid for it, and the after service – on the first day there were errors listed to the extent of 1402! Toshiba used to be great, now they are one inch away from the trash can.

BEWARE-My wife has a Toshiba laptop and purchased a unit for Christmas a few years ago. Both of us had to shut down the auto update feature as we ended up fighting through issues every time an update took place and most times we had to perform a system restore for the units to operate properly again. I have spoken to co-workers who also have Toshibas and they have all commented they have had the same issues. I recently tried updating my browser and it brought the computer to its knees. It was taking hours for it to respond and execute commands. Again I had to do a system restore which took the better part of a day just to get it to launch. Based on my experiences and that of my co-workers I have talked to, if you are buying a unit and plan of keeping up with updates and upgrades, I recommend look at another brand. My 12 year old tower unit hasn’t given me as much trouble as my Toshiba laptop has in two years.

DO NOT BUY TOSHIBA LAPTOP! I am NEVER EVER buying anything by Toshiba, or should I say Toshita, EVER AGAIN. The laptop I have is a piece of sh*t. I’ve tried everything on the planet to hook it to my home wifi and it still doesn’t. It freezes and everything, and they’re customer service is nothing to write home about. A waste of money!!

Thinking of purchasing a Toshiba Laptop…..think again. My Toshiba is only 6 months old and cost me over $400. The screen on my computer is not responding correctly and is giving me a black dot that just keeps growing in size and although still under warranty, I have been told that this is an Out-of-Warranty issue and I will need to pay out of pocket to fix it. Oh did I mention that the out of pocket cost will be about $400 plus the shipping and handling that I will need to pay in order to have the computer shipped back and forth. So for a 6 month old computer in order to fix a problem which I did not cause, it will cost me about the same amount of money, if not more, than the computer itself.

Horrible Toshiba customer service and no way to email corporate. The website is all garbage self help. Two laptops have failed miserably. Lots of information about their CEOs and “commitment” to customer service which is nonsense. Never, never again. They should care. There are far too many negative comments about Toshiba laptops and how they fail miserably in the last few years. Walk away.

My partner bought my toshiba for me as she is more computer literate than me, wish I had read some of these comments before .. Probably the one thing that irks me the most is [ besides slow ,updates etc] IS HAVING TO PAY FOR THE B++++Y CAMERA to be installed..NEVER, EVER again toshiba [I DO KNOW WHERE THE CAPITALS ARE]

Too much to recite here but after spending hours on the phone with Toshiba Direct, all with some foreign country and with representatives difficult to understand, I discovered that our 3 year extended warranty was not going to cover a faulty power port- since it was probably the result of consumer misuse! But if I really wanted to know that for sure, pay to ship the laptop to the “repair depot” where the Toshiba monkeys will discover after all it was my fault that I disrespected the machine. I would owe them God knows how much for a diagnostic fee. Folks save your money and buy a Square Trade warranty, they are honest.

I think. Doing my research on Toshiba and Apple mac, that Apple mac is by far better. Toshiba is slacking in their warranty. I have bought a Toshiba and an Apple mac and I tested the battery life and Apple mac has won on that but then searching on the internet is something that Toshiba won. Toshiba is a very crappy company and I think that it needs to up their warranty and make it more better. I now can no longer use my Toshiba but I can use my Apple mac. I do not like Toshiba personally because I saved some things and then the next day they had vanished. I do not know why. I sent it in to be checked but nothing was wrong with the laptop. The whole system is crap. No offence but the company is really slacking off on a lot of things. They need to fix them.